The Morning Ledger: Apple’s Irish Tax Maneuvers to Get EU Scrutiny

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European Union regulators are plotting a formal probe of corporate tax regimes in Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, to determine whether companies like Apple Inc. are getting special tax deals that violate EU law, the WSJ’s Tom Fairless reports. The move comes after U.S. Senate investigators last year found that Apple paid little or no corporate tax on at least $74 billion in revenue over the previous four years, largely by exploiting a loophole in Ireland’s tax code.

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